EU Graft Scandal Pushes Parliament to Boost Transparency Rules
- Roberta Metsola, the assembly’s president, will announce plans
- Move comes amid probe into alleged corruption involving Qatar
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The Qatar corruption scandal engulfing the European Parliament is spurring a raft of new rules to shed more light on the workings of lawmakers and their contacts with foreign powers, lobbyists and other outsiders.
Roberta Metsola, the assembly’s president, is poised to propose 14 measures including stripping access badges from former members of parliament, introducing a temporary limit on their lobbying activity and publishing information on lawmakers’ meetings, gifts and reprimands.